The Pleasures of Eating (1989)
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I recommend trying these two experiments:
1. For one week buy no food where you have to throw away packaging after. I didn't think I would be able to do it, but it profoundly changed how I eat and view food. Here is my experience: http://joshuaspodek.com/avoiding-food-packaging.
2. For one week, eat no food where fiber has been removed. Again, it seems challenging, but once you do it, you see food differently.
For most of human history, there was no food packaging nor did our ancestors take fiber out of nearly anything. The experiments should be simple. Actually, they are, once you lose the modern view of food being a product.
http://original-unverpackt.de/
But I see this more as a political stance against the common package waste, not so much about about selling different food.
It's only a week.
As a matter of fact, I did start getting bulk wheat and grinding flour from it. When I started the experiment I had no expectation I'd end up making bread from scratch. Just one thing led to another and I started doing it. Now I can go from unground wheat berries to a hot loaf of bread in under an hour, so it's more convenient than buying, on top of being cheaper, healthier, and tastier. I haven't bought bread from a store since.
Getting a pressure cooker helped a lot too, which made cooking dry legumes quick and easy.
What would that be? Where I live, you can't even buy lettuce without a package. The only things I can think of that goes without packaging are potatoes, onions and some fruits and that's only if you don't count plastic bags to put them into, because I doubt a cashier would be impressed if you put a handful of dirty potatoes on a conveyer. Potatoes with fruits only doesn't strike me as a healthy diet anyway.
"For most of human history, there was no food packaging"
Yes, but contrary to my ancestors, I can't go hunting and have a nice, juicy steak afterwards with fresh greens I picked on my way back. Our ancestors lived in a different world, you can't compare apples to oranges.
Fresh meat, potatoes, vegetables? Perfectly doable. You don't count the bag you take yourself, otherways it's absurd (and gross:) ).
> I can't go hunting
You don't have these shops where they cut pieces of meat from refrigerator and give it to you?
Anyway, I would just say outright - buy all raw ingredients and cook yourself, packaging or fiber is just a heuristic.
Cows don't show up as round balls of bloodless meat.
I thought like this before doing the experiment.
That's why I'm suggesting doing the experiment, not just talking about it. This community is resourceful, full of entrepreneurs and engineers who take on bigger challenges than how to find the unpackaged food in a store. If you care about the answers, doing it will lead you to answer your own questions.
> The consumer, that is to say, must be kept from discovering that, in the food industry — as in any other industry — the overriding concerns are not quality and health, but volume and price.